For about six years, students in Ohio State University’s Stone Lab’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Scholarship Program have participated in a multi-state walleye movement and mortality study in Lake Erie.

Using acoustic telemetry, researchers from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) and similar agencies across the region are tracking the movement of fish including Walleye, an important sport fish, to better understand how the fish travel throughout the lake during their life cycle.

In a contributing project funded by Ohio Sea Grant, ODNR researcher Dr. Chris Vandergoot is implanting acoustic trackers into Walleye spawning below a dam located in Ballville Township, just outside of Fremont, Ohio. The trackers in the fish, along with receivers placed throughout Lake Erie and neighboring lakes and streams, act much like the E-ZPass system in place on many U.S. turnpikes.

A cheer rose from those attending the monthly meeting of the East Toledo Club when it was announced that a house at 452 Dover Place will be demolished.

The residence has been vacant for many years, someone noted.

Cindy Geronimo, Commissioner of the Department of Neighborhoods Division of Code Enforcement, gave club members an update Thursday on a realignment of the city’s inspection program. Prior to the change, residential inspectors had been assigned to work according to census tracts. Now they’re working by city council districts.

A proposed levy renewal on the March ballot looms large over much of the discussion members of the Woodmore school board and administration have been having at the start of 2016.

Without renewal of the levy that generates about $600,000 annually, the school system faces a deficit in Fiscal 2017, according to estimates of revenues and expenditures prepared by Jaime Pearson, district treasurer.

The Idle Time Club has been a fixture in East Toledo since it was first opened by Tom Whitehead in 1973. Due to mismanagement by a former manager, the Idle Time fell on hard times and lost its 501(c)(3) in the process.

Now, a new group has taken up Whitehead's mission and, in the process, is trying to take back the Birmingham neighborhood as well.

Now managed by ARM, the Association of Recovering Motorcyclists, the T. Whitehead Recovery Center and Halfway Home to Men is holding a special meeting on Thursday, Jan. 28, called Birmingham Strikes Back.

“We wanted to go back to the roots Whitehead established,” said Kevin Bellman, vice president of both ARM and T. Whitehead. “He knew there was a need in this community back then and the need is even greater now.”